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In reply to the discussion: Just Be Honest And Say You Want Black People To Suffer In Silence [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)voted Democrat in previous decades but voted Republican in 2016. If I'm going to choose any one group. Unlike for conservatives and left-wing extremists, I can't make excuses that they're mostly incapable of respecting the principles western democracies are based on.
Those disaffected white men understood well enough what it is to be Democrat and why, but they decided to betray the principles for which we stand, and their fellow Americans, by voting for the intensely corrupt, seditious, hatemongering white man's party that the Republicans have become.
And, yes, President Obama did tell those who desperately wished he could stay in office, "'You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote!," and some did let him and themselves down.
But in spite of intense efforts in many states to disenfranchise as many as possible, black Americans. only 13% of all Americans, voted Democrat in far higher percentages than whites did, and I'm not blaming them for anything. I'm just ashamed that white Americans betrayed everyone by turning our nation over to the Republicans.